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Category Archives: Jupiter
NASA’s Juno Probe Will Tell Us New Things About Jupiter
Last month, NASA issued a statement saying that preparations for its Juno mission to Jupiter are proceeding well, and that everything is still on schedule for a launch in August of next year. This will be just one part of … Continue reading
Mission Is Planned to Observe Jupiter and Four of Its Moons (Part Two)
This is part two in our examination of the Jupiter mission that is being planned by the European Space Agency and NASA, with collaboration from Japan’s JAXA. The mission, which is called the Europa-Jupiter System Mission in the U.S. and … Continue reading
Mission Is Planned to Observe Jupiter and Four of Its Moons
A huge, multi-national mission to investigate Jupiter and four of its moons is now in its planning stages, and is tentatively planned for a launch in 2020. The project, which is called the Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) in the … Continue reading
Solar System Exploration to Continue
Exploration of our solar system has been ongoing since the first Sputnik Earth orbiter in 1957 and in the 50 years since this a number of missions have been launched to visit and explore celestial bodies. These have included the … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Jupiter, Moon, Planets, Pluto, Venus
Tagged asteroid, Juno, Kuiper Belt, Moonrise, New Frontiers, New Horizons, Osiris-Rex, probes, SAGE, Sputnik
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NASA’s New Horizons Probe Is Approaching the Outer Solar System
NASA’s New Horizons probe is en route for the outer solar system. After scoring a spectacular flyby of Jupiter and its moons in 2007, the craft is now heading for Pluto and beyond. It will be the first probe to … Continue reading